The presumption of "Black Lives Matter" is that America's police are racist, target black people for no reason whatsoever, and wantonly inflict violence on innocent black people. There is no evidence to corroborate such a wild accusation.
America's police made literally 10 million arrests in 2019. Of those arrests, only a couple dozen involved questions of wrongful lethal force by white officers against blacks. In virtually every one of those cases, the police were fired upon first or the suspect threatened the police with lethal force. In other words, the claim that America's police are daily "murdering" black people is a bold lie.
Anyone who has worked in law enforcement (e.g., me) knows what's it's like to try to control someone who is violent and high. The police in the Floyd case made an error is using force, but it does not follow that error was "murder," or impelled by racism. Justice should be served to any officer using excessive force, but the movement to defund the police because they're a terror group is a cause that's beyond foolish and reckless.
America's police made literally 10 million arrests in 2019. Of those arrests, only a couple dozen involved questions of wrongful lethal force by white officers against blacks. In virtually every one of those cases, the police were fired upon first or the suspect threatened the police with lethal force. In other words, the claim that America's police are daily "murdering" black people is a bold lie.
Anyone who has worked in law enforcement (e.g., me) knows what's it's like to try to control someone who is violent and high. The police in the Floyd case made an error is using force, but it does not follow that error was "murder," or impelled by racism. Justice should be served to any officer using excessive force, but the movement to defund the police because they're a terror group is a cause that's beyond foolish and reckless.